Anyone else has or is going to teach their baby more than one language?

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My husband first language is Hindi and mine is English. This is our first... how do you get a kid to be bilingual? Do I speak English and he speaks Hindi or do we teach one language at a time?

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One parent one language works best! Special focus on the non-English language is important as the child will pick that up in school and the world they live in.

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I speak English to my daughter and my husband only speaks Dutch. I suck at speaking Dutch but can understand it so he typically talks to me in Dutch as well and I answer in English. Our daughter is 2 now and can bounce back and forth easy. She is also realizing we call things by different names. Example: she'll say "Mama Shark, Papa Haai".

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My husband and I both speak English but I would like the baby to be exposed to another language early. We plan to read and sing in Spanish until we can get into a bilingual preschool as well as include baby sign language to our home.

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We are doing English and Spanish since my husbands side is all Spanish speaking. We are gonna speak both languages from the start in the home. We also found a lot of bilingual books for baby’s and kids that have basic things (shapes, colors, animals, etc) and has both the English and Spanish versions 🤷🏽‍♀️

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I think you should both speak both at home. My kids have been in bilingual school since pre k and even the daycare they go to helps them with speaking in Spanish. I think the more it’s spoken at home and in school will help a child open up more to the language because they’ve heard it while in the womb

Anyone else has or is going to teach their baby more than one language?

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